28 January 2015

serried

[ser-eed]

adjective

1. pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows:
serried troops.

Origin
1660-1670; serry + -ed2

Related forms
serriedly, adverb
serriedness, noun
unserried, adjective

serry

[ser-ee]

verb (used without object), verb (used with object), serried, serrying. Archaic.
1. to crowd closely together.

Origin
1575-85; < Middle French serré, past participle of serrer to press tightly together; see sear2

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red rise

Today’s aphorism

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

– Buddha

On this day

28 January 1968 – 4 hydrogen bombs are lost when the B-52 bomber that was carrying them, crashes near Thule, Greenland. The bombs are eventually located, but it took nine months to clear the area of radiation.

28 January 1939 – death of William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats), Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate. One of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. He served as an Irish senator for two terms. He led the Irish Literary Revival. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation‘. Born 13 June 1865.

28 January 1986 – the space shuttle, Challenger, explodes moments after lift-off, killing all seven astronauts on board, including Christa MacAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire, who was scheduled to deliver a lesson from outer-space as part of the ‘Teacher in Space’ project.